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Interaction in Health Education

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  • Veikko Tähkä

    (Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

  • Heimo Viinamäki

    (Department of Psychiatry, University of Kuopio, P.O.B. 6, 70211 Kuopio, Finland)

  • Kaj Koskela

    (Unit, National Board of Health. Helsinki, Finland)

Abstract

The usefulness of the application of the psychodynamic frame of reference in person- to-person health education is examined in the presert study. The health educator's proper understanding of his client through an integrative use of his own cognitive and emotional responses to the client is first discussed. Depending on the level of maturity of their personalities, and on the nature of their formative relations, the clients will develop different modes of interaction in their relationships with the health educator. Learning to adequately recognize and meet clients showing different interac tional modes is considered to substantially increase the prospects of the health educator helping his clients to accomplish a change in health behaviour. Four levels of interaction and their proper encountering are described and discussed. It is concluded that health education and individual health educators would benefit from an increased familiarity with, and use of, the psychodynamic body of knowledge.

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  • Veikko Tähkä & Heimo Viinamäki & Kaj Koskela, 1990. "Interaction in Health Education," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 36(2), pages 99-110, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:36:y:1990:i:2:p:99-110
    DOI: 10.1177/002076409003600203
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